Example sentences of "[verb] through [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , he was selected to carry up the bill of settlement to the Lords , and in 1702 piloted through Parliament a measure to attaint the pretender .
2 No religion revealed through Mohammed .
3 Religion revealed through Mohammed .
4 ‘ Extending the range of visits to library and related establishments beyond the London area to which we are limited through lack of funds ’ …
5 One view central to the lawyer/economist is that , in a world where , on the one hand , resources ( all of which have alternative uses ) are limited through scarcity and where on the other hand , there exists the insatiable human desire to consume those resources , then inevitably , trade-offs and choices must somehow be made .
6 Obligations undertaken through consent or respect are voluntary or semi-voluntary obligations .
7 Palings are welded through rails , with no rivets , no visible joints or bolts .
8 If terms should not be taught through drills , or out of context , it follows that terms should not be tested out of context .
9 In emphasising how theoretical study can be applied , in practice we are equally conscious of how the application of ideas in a wide range of specific context can contribute to the ‘ academic ’ pursuit of identifying general theories and models , traditionally taught and still to be taught through disciplines which often impose rather arbitrary boundaries of content .
10 More specifically , Cornall noted ; ‘ cross-curricular themes may be all right but they can not adequately be taught through foundation subjects .
11 They must be taught through benevolence and sympathy ; when the necessity arises shame may be used , but fear only in the last extremity , and then ‘ with such delicacy that if possible the habit may not gather strength by the use you are constrained to make of it ’ .
12 As with other subject areas of the course , electronic publishing is taught through theory and practice .
13 Much has to be taught through gestures , like pointing and touching , and actions , like giving and taking .
14 She considers the idea , implicit in much feminist theory , of an authentic self which is said to be socially conditioned by patriarchal power , and argues that this idea owes much to a tradition in Western philosophy which dates back to the Aristotelian distinction between actions that are voluntary and actions which are coerced , a tradition that can be traced through Descartes to the present time .
15 For in matrilineal societies where kinship is traced through women on the mother 's side of the family , the mother 's brother does not usually behave in this fashion towards his sororal nephew .
16 More personal links can be traced through Sir Ernest Benn , the founder of the Society for Individual Freedom , who , in addition to being a good friend of Allen , was also the publisher of Hewart 's The New Despotism .
17 Four children and their father set off on a bear hunt in high spirits , but by the time they 've forded a river , squelched through mud , survived a snowstorm and a wild wood to penetrate the bear 's dark cave , all they are capable of is running home again , with bear in hot pursuit .
18 If I am lucky , and the weather is compatible with fish-spotting , I should see signs of the carp when they push through weedbeds and hump through the surface , or mudclouds and bubbles when they root in the bottom .
19 On Wednesday , deputies meekly passed a declaration confirming the Russian president 's powers to rule by decree , appoint ministers himself until December and push through market reforms .
20 The trek proves long and arduous , with casualties mounting as they forge through swamps and mountains before finally breaking into the Dalek city .
21 Farrell saw the smashed bone sticking through skin and material .
22 Thus in the Porifera and some Coelenterates the fluid is propelled through channels so that the food and oxygen it contains reach every part of the body .
23 This process of appraisal is often developed through reference to empirical changes in the processes being analysed .
24 Culture and symbolic language , once developed through evolution , allow humans to race ahead .
25 For the purposes of this essay I will concentrate on associative learning which covers what is popularly defined as learning , as opposed to genetic learning which is instinctual , hereditary behaviour that has developed through evolution .
26 The text is based on ideas that have been developed through observations and trials in the classroom — they are offered in the spirit of exploration rather than in supplying definitive answers to the designer 's problems .
27 They were schools , therefore , where progress in matching library provision to curriculum need had already begun , and where it was hoped that this impetus could be further developed through participation in the project and a grant in the region of £2,500 .
28 In philology , which is the study of how languages have developed through history , ablaut refers to the systematic vowel changes in verb forms of Indo-European languages , as in drive , drove , driven .
29 Such characteristics as initiative , purposefulness , persistence and self-control are developed through sport and , while I am not sold on the idea of sport as a builder of ‘ character ’ , I do believe that these capacities serve important functions in self-actualization , that tendency of all human beings to develop their full potentialities .
30 The critique of male sexuality which originally focused on rape , developed through analyses of child sexual abuse and non-stranger rape — and later pornography .
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